Stop desaturating your blue channel to make it look like you shot on Super-8. Nobody is fooled. It is annoying. It is almost as annoying as teal and orange.

I have also seriously had enough of the "jiggle the registration of the RGB layers so that everything gets bleeding color vapor trails" effect. What the hell is that supposed to be, anyway? No device has ever done that!

These are this year's "drum machine hand-clap" of video production, and will age as poorly.

I know what color trails and vapor trails look like - there's a pretty wide range of what our host could mean, and he seems to be talking about a specific effect being used by a number of different people. Yet oddly enough "color trails music video" and "vapor trails music video" bring up nothing useful. The hipsters we're talking about must be too cool for search terms.

Ok, maybe the registration glitch is supposed to look like what happens when you kick a 3-gun projector, but how many people have ever even seen those? How could they be nostalgic for it? The effect really feels like "look I'm being retro" but it's from some alternate timeline that didn't actually happen. I am puzzled by it.

As for the wood-paneled 70s styling: it's a convenient shorthand, because I know that whenever my feeds spit up a video that looks like that, I can hit delete right away. Likewise, I've learned that if the band's singer has a big bushy beard and is dressed like a lumberjack, there's no chance I will be able to tolerate their nasal accoustic strumming bullshit and I don't even need to give them ten seconds to find out.

"So, this flannel thing. Is that a nod to the crispy Seattle weather, or are you just trying to stay warm in front of the refrigerator?"*

Are we talking about the thing in the video for Technologic (Daft Punk)? Because that was clearly late-70s/early-80s picture tube camcorder effect, as anyone who ever stumbled into a free Betamovie will attest.